@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-19 20:38:31
On Sept. 21, the police came for Larry Bushart.
They handcuffed him and hauled him away in the dead of night.
He spent 37 days in jail while held on a $2 million bond
— an amount the retired police officer could not afford.
It’s the sort of treatment one expects for accused murderers and thieves.
But Larry’s only “crime”?
In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, he posted a meme on Facebook
quoting President Trump’s remarks about a different …
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-18 15:51:02
Fun fact, your computer doesn't have USB ports (USB is a protocol, not a connector).
Funner fact, even if your computer has USB-C receptacles it might not be using any type of USB as protocol for a specific connection.
Funnest fact, there's at least a dozen different types of cables that use USB-C plugs with various capabilities, sometimes mutually incompatible and often silently falling back to slower protocols.
@patrickquin@furry.engineer2026-01-19 00:20:14
https://e621.net/forum_topics/61584
I’m with savage orange, MkLXIV, and moderator/dev Aacafah. Certain people with relatively large followings on BlueSky, with at least one openly calling for “shaming” (read: harassment) of anyone who uses e621, are vastly, vastly misreading the motive of
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-12-20 00:13:15
@… thanks.
Let's note, at the foot of the penultimate archived page (prior to removal of the topic):
― opening poster RypPn pleaded for people to be better
― eternal_noob replied, "But i'd like to watch things burn. 🥸".
The flames certainly entertained that one person. Moderators might have been less amused; it …
@adresscomptoir@mastodon.social2025-12-17 09:10:20
Ab sofort zu erwerben; Der neue Augustin - mit einer Ankündigung des in Strasshof veranstalteten Christbaum Weitwerfen 2026, inklusive der Nennung des Filmklassikers, der dort als erster im Arbeiterheim gezeigt wurde! https://augustin.or.at/zeitung/aktuelle-ausgabe/augustin-634/
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-12-13 14:26:33
#TIL I learned that anyone can register a #MediaType for a format they didn't create *and* get it registered with their name in the media type.
#MIME
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-14 15:46:49
Looking for other people here who're interested in analog "alt process" photography (especially Kallitype & salt prints in general) and who are also making their own prints. There used to be a few more such people in my TL, but they all seem to have vanished or stopped posting in the past year, and generally it feels there's precious little interest in this topic on Mastodon... (I too have a feeling, either my own photography went drastically downhill over the past 3-4 …
@UP8@mastodon.social2026-02-13 15:37:02
⚠️ AI can generate a feeling of intimacy that exceeds human connections
I discovered 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 for myself in my ill-fated research project of 2021!
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-ai-generate-intimacy-exceeds-human.html
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2025-11-20 00:09:44
My mother is incredible.
We like to joke that she is a model #immigrant:
- She came to the #US fleeing from the war in #Ukraine, with no further plan besides getting to me and my husband in at least temporary safety.
- We had to run a crowdfunding campaign to help her and the kids sustain themselves as they waited for their #TPS immigration paperwork to process.
- Once her work authorization came through, she somehow managed to get a job as faculty at #Cornell - and started their #Ukrainian program, teaching the language and Ukrainian history for the first time in the university’s curriculum.
- Now she’s been accepted to academic conferences, publications, and has joined the board of the refugee support organization in #Ithaca that helped her get settled there herself.
I’m so proud of her. Y’all should read this article, it’s pretty good: https://www.ithacawelcomesrefugees.org/giving-from-abundance-krystynas-journey-to-becoming-an-iwr-board-member/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-06 19:25:38
HarperCollins France says it is testing using AI-assisted translation, citing declining sales and following in the footsteps of Taylor & Francis and others (Eva Baron/Publishers Weekly)
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-to…
